Accountable Care Will Depend Upon Accountable Patients April 28, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling The New York Times headline sums up a philosophy of health care that seems counterintuitive., especially given the push here at Anderson to increase patient encounters. “A Health Provider Finds Success In Keeping Hospital Beds Empty”. The article by Annie Lowrey...

April 29, 2013

4 mins

Accountable Care Will Depend Upon Accountable Patients April 29, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling The New York Times headline sums up a philosophy of health care that seems counterintuitive., especially given the push here at Anderson to increase patient encounters. “A Health Provider Finds Success In Keeping Hospital Beds Empty”. The article by Annie Lowrey...

April 29, 2013

4 mins

Accountable Care Will Depend Upon Accountable Patients April 29, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling The New York Times headline sums up a philosophy of health care that seems counterintuitive., especially given the push here at Anderson to increase patient encounters. “A Health Provider Finds Success In Keeping Hospital Beds Empty”. The article by Annie Lowrey...

April 26, 2013

1 min

Sent to me by a friend and worthy of your reading: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raeburn/did-time-magazine-offer-f_b_3021166.html

April 22, 2013

4 mins

The Yankees Out There April 22, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling This is an important article for anyone interested in the cancer problem faced by the people of the United States. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/health/patients-genes-seen-as-future The cancer problem is really simple to state. There’s too much of it and it is killing people. The solution is far...

April 21, 2013

1 min

Worthy of some thought: M.D. Anderson’s Chief Entrepreneur

April 18, 2013

4 mins

What We’ve Got Here Is Failure to Communicate April 18, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling This is the correct wording of the famous Strother Martin line from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, starring Paul Newman. It is usually mangled in some way, but that does not detract from its meaning or its continued...

April 16, 2013

3 mins

What’s Good for General Dempsey is Good for the MDA April 16, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling The headline in Sunday’s NY Times said it all: “Military’s Top Officers Face Review of Their Character”. It seems that Joint Chiefs Chair General Martin Dempsey is leading a complete “overhaul” of the system of evaluating the...

April 15, 2013

6 mins

The Whole Truth, The First Time April 15, 2013 (Don’t forget to mail your annual contribution to Medicare, Medicaid, the VA System, military health care and health care for Indians, government employees and members of Congress. Due today! Almost 50% of health care costs in the country are paid for by you! Plus you...

April 12, 2013

1 min

A Horrendous Story Largely Ignored By the American Press April 12, 2013 Please read this from NY Times and know that several of us in the US have been trying to get this story out. Finally… http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/africa/index.html As you read consider the fact that Johns Hopkins, Children’s National Medical Center and MD Anderson have all...